Ubuntu added telemetry and forced snaps

Voyager:

He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.

I'm worried about relying on remote servers for random numbers, especially for cryptographic purposes. There's no way to verify that you aren't the only person with access to those numbers, and it's fairly difficult even as the sysadmin to ensure that they're logged nowhere.

Ah, that's de Morgan's law.

Alphabetical index — ACAB

IIRC you are required to connect to internet to continue the setup process in newer versions.

I can't tell if this is Poe's law or not.

One of my old programs produces a broken build unless you then compile it again.

PSA: Youtube now tracks your account in shared links, allowing them to link your Lemmy account to your Google account. To prevent this, remove ?sl= and everything after it from links you share (until ＆t= if it's present).

:wq will write even if you didn't change anything; :x won't. (similar to :w vs :up)